Tom Danehy: Allowing Transgender Women To Compete Against Cisgender Women Is Unfair (Tucson Weekly)
When I'm on that conveyor belt to the afterlife, will my devotion to sports be a plus or a minus? You can just see St. Peter and Lucifer sitting side-by-side (but not too close) at the end of the beltway, deciding whether to use that giant flipper to send me one way or the other, like I'm a package at the Amazon distribution center.
Helaine Olen: Trump takes his case to New York's business elite (Washington Post)
That's when the crowd burst into applause and laughter. Yes, Trump's a reality-challenged grifter and liar. But it's Democrats - some of whom want to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans - who are crazy, at least in the view of many of the businessmen (and occasional woman) in attendance at Trump's speech. Remember that the next time you hear a billionaire or high-ranking executive opine about the Democratic presidential field.
Andrew Crump: Camgirl Memoirist Isa Mazzei Wants to Take the Shame Out of Sex Work (Vulture)
In 2017, Isa Mazzei wrote a screenplay for a horror movie called Cam, the story of a camgirl whose feed is taken over by her doppelgänger; Netflix released the film in November 2018. A year later, Camgirl, Mazzei's memoir of her own experiences as a camgirl, has arrived in bookstores, lifting the veil of fiction from her life story. In a conversation with Vulture, Mazzei discusses vulnerability and safety in camming and in writing, how to promote empathy for sex workers, and where to find honesty in cultural sexuality. (An excerpt from Camgirl is available exclusively on the Cut.)
Ricardo Montalbán, in commercials for Chyrsler's 1975 Cordoba, claimed the upholstery was available in fine (alternately, "soft" or "rich") leather. What is the term coined by the advertising agency to describe this fine/soft/rich leather?
Corinthian leather is a term coined by the advertising agency Bozell to describe the upholstery used in certain Chrysler luxury vehicles. The term first appeared in advertising in 1974. Although this is merely a marketing concept, it suggests that the term-not the product-was inspired from the more elaborate and impressive ancient Greek column of the Corinthian order.
While the term was first used during the marketing campaign for the 1974 Imperial LeBaron, it is usually associated with the marketing campaign beginning with the 1975 Cordoba and that campaign's celebrity spokesperson, Ricardo Montalbán, who described the thickly-cushioned luxury of seats "available even in fine (alternately, "soft" or "rich") Corinthian leather".
Despite the exotic origin suggested by the name "Corinthian leather", much of the leather used in Chrysler vehicles during the era originated from a supplier located outside Newark, New Jersey.
Some sources say the term refers to the combination of leather seating surfaces and vinyl seat sides. However, most cars worldwide with "leather upholstery" have matching color vinyl seat bases and often the rear faces of the front seats, the head rests, and the door facings. The standard term in period car catalogs was "leather with vinyl", and sometimes "leather seat facings". When Montalbán was asked by David Letterman on Late Night with David Letterman what the term meant, the actor cheerfully admitted that the term meant nothing.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Corinthian leather.
Randall wrote:
Corinthian Leather
Dave said:
Corinthian leather. The term was invented to give the illusion that Chrysler's copy of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo offered a measure of exclusivity. But the seats were covered by the same cow leather as other makes. The personal luxury market for US automobiles consisted of mid-sized or large 2 door cars with soft springs and more sound deadening than the similar less expensive cars. They also typically included useless features like padded ˝ vinyl roofs, 'opera' windows, generous amounts of chrome, and fake wood trim for the interior. Those 'personal luxury' touches increased the price of course. Other notable personal luxury cars were the Buick Rivera, Pontiac Grand Prix, Oldsmobile Toronado, and Ford Thunder Bird. Except for Ford, the use of European names was usual for that type of car.
As far as the Cordoba goes, it was the first Chrysler brand car that was smaller than the rest of the Chrysler line. The standard engine for the '75 Cordoba was a 360 cubic inch V8 but optional with the thriftier 318 and 2 versions of the big block 400 for those that wanted more power. The Cordoba sold well for a few years.
Photos: Chrysler Cordoba | Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
Alan J answered:
Corinthian Leather.
mj replied:
Named after the column
That gave its name to the most elaborate order of Greek columns. The
upholstery was glove soft Corinthinan leather. I suppose one could also
say the softness was Biblical.
My Snowflake friend, Roy, in Tyler, TX responded:
Ricardo Montalban loved that "fine (also soft or rich) Corinthian leather, which was Chrysler's trade name for a blend of leather and vinyl developed for its luxury cars. The combination provides the plush qualities of leather while eliminating the care required by the real thing.
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• The art of Howard Hodgkin is loved by the public. Early in his life, he knew that he wanted to be an artist, and he ran away from nearly every school he was sent to. Once, a police officer asked him why he had run away from a school: "Why did you do this? Are they maltreating you?" The young Howard replied, "No, I ran away to be an artist." The understanding police officer replied, "Good for you." For many years, Mr. Hodgkin taught art, which he believes is actually "a great trap for an artist as it becomes a substitute life." When he decided to tell art teacher Clifford Ellis that he was going to stop teaching, Mr. Ellis told him, "I know what you're going to say, and I'm amazed it's taken you so long." At age 75, Mr. Hodgkin was working hard on his art, for a practical reason: "Old age." He told reporter Tim Teeman, "I think the time comes when you think, 'Well there's not much time left.' When I was your age, I thought time was endless and suddenly it becomes clear that it's not."
• Claude Monet created a series of paintings with the haystacks of Giverny as their subject. Why did he paint the haystacks over and over? So that he could capture the various kinds of light on them. When he first decided to paint the haystacks, he sent Suzanne Hoschedé, his stepdaughter, to get him two canvases: one for painting the haystacks in direct sunshine, and one for painting the haystacks when a cloud covered the sun. However, he quickly discovered that there were other variations of light that he wanted to paint, and so he kept sending Suzanne to get more canvases. When Suzanne returned with the first two canvases, Monet remembered, "I noticed that the light had changed. I said to [her], 'Would you go back to the house, please, and bring me another canvas?' She brought it to me, but very soon the light had changed again. 'One more!' and, 'One more still!'" Eventually, he was painting on five canvases, moving from one to the other as the light changed.
• Jack Kirby is King of Comics, and his art filled many, many comic books. He was known for working well and quickly, filling page after page with high-quality artwork. However, early in his career Mr. Kirby worked for Victor Fox, a man who paid artists poorly and who wanted profits much more than masterpieces; therefore, Mr. Kirby took shortcuts in his artwork. For example, he would draw a large cloud, which took little work, then add a tiny, quickly drawn airplane to fill a panel of a comic book. One day, he filled an entire panel with the word "Wow." Mr. Fox was puzzled, and he asked Mr. Kirby what was the point of the word "Wow." Mr. Kirby stumbled out an explanation about relating to kids on their level. This satisfied Mr. Fox, and very quickly his other artists started to fill panels with the word "Wow," knowing - as Mr. Kirby did - that this was a quick way to create a panel.
• The security guards at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. covet certain rooms to guard. For example, the most coveted rooms are those devoted to the French Impressionists because those works of art are so greatly loved by both the museum visitors and the security guards. For a while, security guards weren't so happy about working in the East Building because those rooms are devoted to 20th-century art, which is more difficult to understand. Sometimes, museum visitors will tell the security guards, "My kid can do better than that!" However, the curators of the 20th-century works of art began to educate the security guards, pointing out that at first people had rejected the French Impressionists and made the same kind of comments about their works of art. After receiving these art lessons, the security guards don't as much mind working in the East Building.
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NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Blacklist', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Celine Dion, Tig Notaro, Colin O'Brady, and Shin Lim.
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MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Taken', followed by 'The Preppy Murder: Death In Central Park - Part 5', then the movie 'Taken'.
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SyFy has the movie 'Seven', followed by the movie 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters', then a FRESH'Van Helsing'.
Stephen Colbert is heading down under! The Late Show is set to roll out a week of shows that will feature the host's trip to New Zealand. The episodes will air on CBS starting November 18 at 11:35 PM ET/PT.
The idea for Colbert's trip started in September 2018, when New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared on The Late Show offering Hobbiton citizenship to Colbert, a J.R.R. Tolkien enthusiast. Hobbiton is, of course, a location in New Zealand where they filmed the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. On September 2019, Ardern returned to the show to make the invitation official. And with that, Colbert and his team journeyed to New Zealand in October.
Each night next week, Colbert will share videos that celebrate the island nation. Footage includes his interview with Ardern as well as a visit to Hobbiton with Lord of the Rings director-producer Peter Jackson to film scenes for a spinoff. He also goes on a tour with Xena herself, Lucy Lawless, and Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie. In addition, The Late Show will explore the country's extreme landscape, which culminates in a visit to the birthplace of bungee jumping. We will also get to see Colbert get a lesson in rugby from legends of New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks.
In addition to Colbert's journey to Middle Earth, The Late Show will broadcast live following the next Democratic debate November 20. John Heilemann and Alex Wagner will join Colbert as guests. It will be the 25th time The Late Show has broadcast live.
Facebook is facing criticism for sponsoring the annual gala dinner of the Federalist Society, the powerful rightwing legal group behind the nomination of conservative supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The world's largest social media company is listed as a "gold circle" sponsor of the 2019 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, and is featured in the guidebook app for the event, where Kavanaugh will be the keynote speaker on Thursday evening.
The Federalist Society has played a key role in the decades-long Republican strategy to pack US courts with conservatives, which has been advanced under Donald Trump's administration. The group's executive vice-president, Leonard Leo, advised the president on Kavanaugh's controversial appointment.
Demand Justice, the not-for-profit group which aims to motivate progressives on issues related to the federal judiciary, released an advert calling on supporters to "tell Facebook: stop funding the fight to normalize Brett Kavanaugh".
This is not the first time Facebook has drawn scrutiny over Kavanaugh. The company's head of global public policy, Joel Kaplan, was spotted sitting behind Kavanaugh during his 2018 Senate judiciary committee hearing, after the California psychologist Dr Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Kavanaugh's appointment was subsequently confirmed despite Ford's testimony.
Can old dogs teach us new tricks? Scientists are looking for 10,000 pets for the largest-ever study of aging in canines. They hope to shed light on human longevity too.
The project will collect a pile of pooch data: vet records, DNA samples, gut microbes and information on food and walks. Five hundred dogs will test a pill that could slow the aging process.
For the study, the dogs will live at home and follow their usual routine. All ages and sizes, purebreds and mutts are welcome.
Owners will complete periodic online surveys and take their dogs to the vet once a year, with the possibility of extra visits for certain tests. Their welfare will be monitored by a bioethicist and a panel of animal welfare advisers.
The five-year study was formally launched Thursday at a science meeting in Austin, Texas. The National Institute on Aging is paying for the $23 million project because dogs and humans share the same environment, get the same diseases and dogs' shorter lifespans allow quicker research results, said deputy director, Dr. Marie Bernard. The data collected will be available to all scientists.
Adolf Hitler's top hat, Eva Braun's dresses and a silver-covered edition of "Mein Kampf" are among the items being put up for sale by a German auction house, prompting protests from Jewish leaders.
Munich-based Hermann Historica will be selling 147 items from the Third Reich on November 20.
The items include the personal belongings of top Nazi leaders such as Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels, many of which were seized by US soldiers in the final days of World War II.
The dresses belonging to Braun, Hitler's long-term companion who was briefly his wife before their death, were found among 40 trunks seized by the US military in May 1945 in Salzburg in Austria.
Some of the more unusual lots include a copy of Hitler's rental contract in Munich and a pair of sunglasses worn by a defendants at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg to avoid the glare of the floodlights.
James Peebles won this year's Nobel prize in physics for helping transform the field of cosmology into a respected science, but if there's one term he hates to hear, it's "Big Bang Theory."
The leading explanation for the universe in its earliest periods has held sway for decades, with Peebles' early work investigating cosmic background radiation helping to cement many of the details.
But "the first thing to understand about my field is that its name, Big Bang Theory, is quite inappropriate," the 84-year-old told a rapt audience at an event honoring US-based Nobel Prize winners at a Swedish Embassy event in Washington on Wednesday.
"It connotes the notion of an event and a position, both of which are quite wrong," he continued, adding there is in fact no concrete evidence for a giant explosion.
But he is careful to note that he does not know about the "beginning."
A day after images of a puppy with an extra tail growing from its head made headlines around the world, another animal with unusual extra headgear has been sighted - a rare three-antlered whitetail deer.
The creature was pictured between the snow covered trees on Michigan's Upper Peninsula by amateur photographer and former state representative, Steve Lindberg.
The large buck was captured looking directly at the camera. On its right side, he has a five-point antler growing from his head. But an abnormal growth appears to have caused two separate antler beams to grow out of its skull, side by side.
The creature appears to have suffered no ill-effects from the supplementary cranial protuberance and Mr Lindberg noted the animal was seen "with his girlfriend".
The buck was with a small doe and he suggested it had not wanted him to get too close to her. The following day the creature had vanished from the area.
In early September, dozens of animals were swept out to sea in North Carolina during Hurricane Dorian, which hit the state as a Category 1 storm. Now, three cows have been found nearby, and officials believe they swam to safety following the major storm.
Cape Lookout National Seashore officials told the Charlotte Observer about 20 cows and 28 wild horses were among the wildlife that were killed during the hurricane. However, three cows have recently been found roaming the national park, shocking officials and locals.
Officials believe the cows swam several miles across the Core Sound from Cedar Island during the storm. The trio is now "grazing peacefully together on federal grass," Cape Lookout spokesman B. G. Horvat told McClatchy news group.
Horvat said the group was incredibly lucky. If they had to go any further, the would have likely drifted into the Atlantic, he said.
The cows, who have been nicknamed "sea cows," belonged to a herd of about 20 that roam freely on about 1,000 acres of privately owned land on Cedar Island, according to The Charlotte Observer. However, officials believe many of the cows died in the storm.
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